Computational Thinking for Middle School Students through the Integration of Graphical
Programming and Robotics

This project seeks to integrate 3D programming and autonomous robotics under the over-arching
concept of computational thinking as a means of stimulating interest in computing
from underrepresented groups.

An educational tool that integrates the Alice 3D programming environment with autonomous
wheeled robots (with on-board sensing) has been created.

We are developing the associated curriculum and we will be evaluating this tool through
camps organized in Spring-Summer 2012 for middle-school students from local schools.